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F2 tornado in Monroe County, Mississippi

Tornado May 7, 2003 · Monroe County, Mississippi

Rating

27.5 mi

Whole path

440 yd

Path width

Injuries

$3.0M

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Chickasaw County → Monroe County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 440 yards (0.25 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F2 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F2 meant considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted; the scale paired it with winds of 113–157 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

What the National Weather Service wrote

The tornado moved into Monroe County from Chickasaw County and continued to move east-southeast.A cow and a calf were killed. Thirty-five homes were destroyed and 117 others were damaged. Several barns, sheds and outbuildings were also damaged.

Began near Gibson (33.8833, -88.7667).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

2 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

F2 Lee County F2 Itawamba County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5356475. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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